Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-01
OPINIONS ON LICENSE
what Eminent Authorities EIave
Said About It.
The Price of Blood, Established a Mon.
opol7-Tle DEVILS Policy Legalisss
lniqaity and Sanctions Wrong.

Woe to him that buildeth a town with !!
Billie.
High license is only q buffer interrosed
between the liquor traffic and the popular
indignation against it.-Neal Dom.
1t has been found by experience that
nothing can restrain the people from buy !
ing these liquors but such laws as hinder |
them being sold.-Bishop of Oxford IN
I743.
l cannot consent as your Queen to take
revenue from that which destroys the souls
and bodies of my subjects Queen of Mad |
dOascor to those echo proposed she should
'ecetre II revenue from strong drink.
License had its origin with the devil in
the garden of Eden, when he gave Eve
permission to violate Gods first prohibit
tory law, and assured her it would Con
duce to the public good."-W. Fl. III. Bar
tram.
1t is as plain to me as the sun in q clear
summer sky that the license laws of our
country constitute one of the main pillars
on which the stupendous fabric of intern
perance now rests.-Rcr. Hcm0M Hum
phrey, 1888.
When the public opinion shall place
those who furnish the means of this de-
structive vice or a level with thieves and
counterfeiters, then, and not till then, may
we expect to see our land purged from this
abomination.-Judge Dur1d Ud0gett, c. u.
Conn, 1888.
The evil dntemperancel ought not to be
permitted to grow i'll order hat the police
may be called IN TO repress it. Prevention
is not only better than cure, but prevention
is u duty. and cure is q lame, Mailing at
tempt to undo an evil which we have will
fully permitted.-Cardinat Manning.
Should these wages of iniquity be put
into the Treasury? They are the price of
blood, and in their aggregate. would be in
adequate to buy fields enough to bury the
multitudes who are the victims of the
dreadful traffic for whose profits they sell
the peoples sanction.-StaH Board of
Charities of Pennsylvania, 1871.
1t is our solemn impression that the time
has now arrived when our public authori-
ties should no longer sanction the evil
complained of, by granting licenses for
the purposes of vending spirits. thereby
legalizing the traffic, at the expense of our
moral, intellectual, and physical power
Grand Jury of the city aas,t county of -Ner
York Ia 1882.
Believing that high license has had a fair
trial in several States, and has utterly failed
to mitigate the evils or to regulate the traf-
tc, as q body Of Christian temperance
women. We repudiate any part or lot in this
ubiquitous business, and will strive in all
proper ways to influence all citizenst to over
throw q system based Upon a bargain for
souls.-Resolutions N. w. G. Z. u.
Which of your boys, the heaven of your
heart and life, will you give in order that
your city may be lighted with gas OF brill
liant with electric light? Which child can
you spare to help YOU city grade and pave
its streets? How long will you consent to
tread on sidewalks that the blood of souls
has enabled yo,n city to lay for your con-
venience?-Mary j. Aldrich.
The law which licenses the sale of ardent
spirits is an impediment to the temperance
reformation. Whenever public opinion and
the moral sense of our community shall be
80 far corrected and mntured as to regard
them in their true light, and when the pub
lie safety shall be thought to require il.
dram shops will be indictable at common
law as public MISUNDERSTANDING Plat.
OF all the evils which the liquor traffic
has forced upon this or any other country,
we think none are more repulsive to
thoughtful Christian people than the sys-
ten Of license, and, sad to say, men are
not wanting who, for financial returns,
eagerly receive these unhallowed gains,
recorded its woe to them that built a town
with blood.-Contcrence Evangelical
Churches.
To support government by propagating
vice, is to support it by means which de-
stroy the end for which it was originally
established and for which its continuance
is to be desired. If the expenses of the
government cannot be betrayed but by
colrupting the morals OF the people, I
shall, without scruple, declare that money
ought not to be raised, nor the designs of
the government supported.-Dr. Samuel
Johnson.
There was a time when the temperance
movement was largely the struggle Of a few
poor victims of the traffic to free them
selves. That day has passed. The reform
has become a part of the religious faith of
this nation, and in spite of all the sophis-
their aiders and abettors, the day is not far
distant when a State will no sooner license
a man to carry on a business to debauch
the loved ones of the women of this land,
than it will license a man to steal the jew
els from their Jewel cases.-John 3. Finch.
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellow
ship with thee, which frameth mischief by a
law" A law framed to protect evil is a
method of framing mischief by law. A
law which assumes that a thing is wrong,
and vet tolerates it; which attempts only
to check and regulate 1t, without utterly
prohibiting it; which aims to derive a reve-
nue. from it for the purpose of government:
which makes that which is morally wrong
legal, is one Of those things in human af-
fairs with which the throne of God can
have no fellowship.-Rer. Albert Barnes.
It may be taken to be the solemnly de-
clared judgment of the people Of the COM
monwealth. that the principle OF licensing
the traffic in intoxicating drinks as a bever-
age, and thus giving legal sanction to that
which is regarded in itself an evil, is no
longer admissible in morals or in legisla-
ton. A return to the license system would
revive the opprobrium which public senti-
ment always adjudges to a monopoly estab-
lished by law, rendered all the more in
tense by the offensive nature of the bust
ness thus supported by the sanction and
protection of the Legislature.-Gor. Bull
lock of Massachusetts,, IN 1861, Thcn
. Chairman of the Judiciary Committee Of
the Massachusetts Legislature.
Upon the statute book of Massachusetts
= is n law f%orbidding the sale of liquors as a
beverage; she is now askedto license. regu-
late, protect and make respectable the sale
Of that which causes vice, extinguishes
reason, and is the arch abomination OF
our natures. 1 meet this demand for